It was originally thought that the ancient stone walls visible on the edge of the Mu Us Desert in the northern province of Shaanxi had once been part of the Great Wall. But, when archaeologists ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

Clockwise from top left: Roman mosaic of a retiarius versus a secutor; Roman bronze gladiator helmet, Italy; Roman gladiator fresco, Pompeii, Italy While some ancient written sources describe ...

The oldest settlement at Troy dates to the end of the fourth millennium B.C. It was founded on a small hilltop near an inland lagoon of the Dardanelles, a narrow strait connecting the Sea of ...

There are mountains plunging into the sea from hundreds of meters, there are fjords, tall mountain peaks, northern lights and midnight sun. There are uniquely Norwegian Stave Churches, UNESCO ...

The Lone Star State is home to a rich heritage of archaeology and history, from 14,000-year-old stone tools to the famed Alamo. Explore this interactive map—then plan your own exploration.

The succession crisis that gripped Egypt near the end of the 18th Dynasty not only plunged the lives of Amenhotep III’s surviving family members into turmoil, it also sealed the fate of an ...

Painting of King David, Old Dongola, Sudan(Photo by Adrian Chlebowski/Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of Warsaw) Painting of Virgin Mary, Old ...

For three years after his 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter did not think much about an undecorated wooden box that turned out to contain two small resin ...

Troy VII is often subdivided into two different phases, Troy VIIa and Troy VIIb, as a major destruction event occurred between 1220 B.C.-1180 B.C. that demarcates two very different phases.